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PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png
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The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
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I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?
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The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?
I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?
It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.
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For some reason, the PowerArchiver functions in the Windows 11 context menu no longer work after the last Windows Update. Only the functions in the classic context menu function as they should.
I’ve tried uninstalling PowerArchiver and using RevoUninstaller to remove all bits and pieces that were left behind and did a clean install of PowerArchiver, it didn’t fix the issue. Other items in the Windows 11 context menu work.
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Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.
I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…
Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.
I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.
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In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.
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Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
CU, Pirrbe.
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PA 2023 22.00.08
Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
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It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
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Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?
Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
"This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?
thanks in advance!
All the best!
Joerg" -
Re: Explorer.exe Crash on right click
This appears to be happening again with the Power Archiver 2022 shell extensions.
When I have Use Explorer Shell Extensions enabled in Power Archiver Configuration and right-click on c:\Users\username\Start Menu, (hidden Junction file), File Explorer crashes.
I have version 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit installed in Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826).
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PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
Discovered:
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When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.
The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.
The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.
Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.
The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.
The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.
Vista 5600 (RC1)
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PA doesn’t work in this version either. Seems like they’ve kept the application model.
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I have the same problem. Seems like MS broke something in RC1
Guido
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5600 is nice, isnt it? Quite nice.
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Yes it is.
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i’m using it as my primary os on my desktop and about half time on my laptop with no problems. (still using delphi 6 at work. doesn’t work so well in vista :))
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I’m also using it as a primary OS as I just can’t get used back to XP :D
Btw, any fix on the horizon? Must be some small problem for PA to crash.
Also, I like the new Office interface, but Outlook HTML rendering seems to be broken.
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I’m also using it as a primary OS as I just can’t get used back to XP :D
Btw, any fix on the horizon? Must be some small problem for PA to crash.
Also, I like the new Office interface, but Outlook HTML rendering seems to be broken.
Also it downloads images every damn time instead of saving those into the mail itself.its same as before - registration protection, kernel crash :-).
Should be fixed soon though. We will update 9.6x when that happens.
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Why don’t you use your own protection instead of that silly thing. Cracks are anyway all over the Internet…
You loose more on incompatibility than you gain on protection…
Who wants to buy PA will do so anyway. Who doesn’t will use a keygen anyway.
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Why don’t you use your own protection instead of that silly thing. Cracks are anyway all over the Internet…
You loose more on incompatibility than you gain on protection…
Who wants to buy PA will do so anyway. Who doesn’t will use a keygen anyway.
there are no keygens :-). Thats the whole point… with “our” protection, there were around 500 of them :-).
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Hmm. I would expect a more underground knowledge from a developer. :)
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Hmm. I would expect a more underground knowledge from a developer. :)
Well, just xxx.xxx :)i still didnt find any keygens for PA2006… Just serials. There is an big difference there.
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In any case, we should have support months before Vista is officially released.
thanks,
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i still didnt find any keygens for PA2006… Just serials. There is an big difference there.
Which protection toolkit do you use?
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Can’t wait till PA works in RC1 but I will miss the nice Zip icons MS made for archive files. Anyway to use PA and keep those?
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Can’t wait till PA works in RC1 but I will miss the nice Zip icons MS made for archive files. Anyway to use PA and keep those?
sure - you can take them and use PA skins to set them as PA icons - quite easy, just skinning info on this website.
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Thanks for the info. One more thing: I noticed that if you place a file within an archive, that Vista will prompt you to either cancel or overwrite. With PA, it inserts the new file, but also leaves the original file there too. Can PA be configured to overwrite the old files?
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Thanks for the info. One more thing: I noticed that if you place a file within an archive, that Vista will prompt you to either cancel or overwrite. With PA, it inserts the new file, but also leaves the original file there too. Can PA be configured to overwrite the old files?
that depends on the path saved - if files have same path, it will be overwriten, if they dont - they it wont.
check archive in explorer view in PA in case you dont understand what I mean…
thanks,
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OK, I’ve just installed the ‘vista ready’ 9.63 powerarchiver which does not work so I then uninstalled it but vista now does not know how to open standard zip files. Any ideas on getting that working?
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OK, I’ve just installed the ‘vista ready’ 9.63 powerarchiver which does not work so I then uninstalled it but vista now does not know how to open standard zip files. Any ideas on getting that working?
right click on any file and select Send to> Compressed folder. I think thats what it is called.
Windows will then ask you if you want to re-associate with Compressed Folders.
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I’m afraid that did not work any other ideas?
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I’m afraid that did not work any other ideas?
did it actually ask you for the re-association? It just didnt work? Or?
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Sorry should have made that clearer. I Right Clicked and sent a file to a compressed folder. The zip was created succesfully but I was not prompted about the association. Attempting to open the file prompts for you to choose a program to associate but it’s the os i’m trying to reassociate. Is there a version on the horizon that works with rc1?
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Sorry should have made that clearer. I Right Clicked and sent a file to a compressed folder. The zip was created succesfully but I was not prompted about the association. Attempting to open the file prompts for you to choose a program to associate but it’s the os i’m trying to reassociate. Is there a version on the horizon that works with rc1?
Maybe I can create an .reg file for you to re-associate.
As to the Vista, YES, soon, I hope.
thanks,
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Just choose Windows ‘explorer.exe’ as the program in ‘file association’ and check 'always use this program.
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thanks, I can now double click and open a zip again. Now if i can just get the compressed folder icon back…
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thanks, I can now double click and open a zip again. Now if i can just get the compressed folder icon back…
i have to find clean Vista installation, and when I do, I will attach an registry script that will do that…
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Why does PA 2004 work but PA 2006 doesn’t?
Suppose its a bit like Nero in that way Nero 6.6.0.6 worked but the new 7 one didn’t.
Ok yes power archiver 2004 works fully on windows vista, you can download it here:
http://download.oldversion.com/powarc926.exe
Yes its a retail copy, no it does not have keygen, you can use trial. May be a slow download tho.
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They use a component that doesnt work in Vista yet. They are waiting for a new version.
Guido
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I’m a registered user of PA 2006 is there any way i can get hold of a key for PA 2004 as I am now using it on Vista RC1?
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email us at support so we can give you reg number as well OR if you purchased PA 2004 or before, you can login to your account and you will still be able to get PA 2004 from there.
thanks,
